Harvesting Haiti

Author : Myriam J. A. Chancy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477327819
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvesting Haiti written by Myriam J. A. Chancy and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 was a debilitating event that followed decades of political, social, and financial issues. Leaving over 250,000 people dead, 300,000 injured, and 1.5 million people homeless, the earthquake has had lasting repercussions on a struggling nation. In this book, Myriam Chancy encourages us to look at Haiti and to continue to examine the historical and present structures that have resulted in Haiti's post-earthquake conditions. And as Haiti is newly recovering from another 7.2 magnitude earthquake from August 2021, the questions that Chancy seeks to answer and the stories she aims to document seem all the more urgent. Originally presented at invited campus talks, published as columns for a newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago, or other venues, the essays in Harvesting Haiti respond to a particular moment and preserve the reactions and urgencies in the years following the 2010 disaster. As Chancy explains, this work "remains pertinent to discussions of Haiti today and to understand what was being discussed in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, which continues to mark the country today, is relevant to what may or may not be possible for its future." The volume is organized into five parts, each with a thematic focus that reveals an important element for the context of post-earthquake Haiti. Part I provides political contexts and background, and includes pieces on international aid, Haiti's exclusion from global trade, and overarching issues in the battle for sovereignty. In Part II, an interview and two essays based on invited talks problematize the media's portrayal of gendered issues in the wake of the disaster. Part III takes an artistic turn with a poem and photo essay. Part IV preserves essays originally published in a column in a discontinued magazine insert for The Trinidad Express. Part V looks to the impact of the earthquake on the already vexed relationship between Haiti and their neighbor, the Dominican Republic. The book concludes with a reflection from five years after the earthquake, and then the tenth anniversary of the disaster"--

Author : Myriam J. A. Chancy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477327835
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvesting Haiti written by Myriam J. A. Chancy and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection ponders the personal and political implications for Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the devastating 2010 earthquake. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 was a debilitating event that followed decades of political, social, and financial issues. Leaving over 250,000 people dead, 300,000 injured, and 1.5 million people homeless, the earthquake has had lasting repercussions on a struggling nation. As the post-earthquake political situation unfolded, Myriam Chancy worked to illuminate on-the-ground concerns, from the vulnerable position of Haitian women to the failures of international aid. Originally presented at invited campus talks, published as columns for a newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago, and circulated in other ways, her essays and creative responses preserve the reactions and urgencies of the years following the disaster. In Harvesting Haiti, Chancy examines the structures that have resulted in Haiti's post-earthquake conditions and reflects at key points after the earthquake on its effects on vulnerable communities. Her essays make clear the importance of sustaining and supporting the dignity of Haitian lives and of creating a better, contextualized understanding of the issues that mark Haitians’ historical and present realities, from gender parity to the vexed relationship between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Author : John and Joyce Hanson
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449791484
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvesting Haiti-Led by the Master written by John and Joyce Hanson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the coalfields of West Virginia to the small country of Haiti in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, John and Joyce Hanson share their 43-year missionary journey with writer Christine Barbetti-Feamster. Through numerous tropical storms, a kidnapping, an earthquake that threatened to destroy all they ever worked for, and personal tragedy, John and Joyce's faith has triumphed for the glory of God. When you read Harvesting Haiti-Led by the Master be prepared to laugh, cry, and be awed by the miracles of a faithful God who chose a humble coal miner's son and his wife to bring salvation to thousands of lost souls in Haiti. "Inspiring...Genuine" -Stewart Farley "Dynamic Testimony...Laced with Adventure" -Dave Hanson "Superb...Powerful" -Donald Stelting

Author : Mary Jane Camejo
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 : 9780929692609
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvesting Oppression written by Mary Jane Camejo and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1990 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keith Fuglie
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464814295
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvesting Prosperity written by Keith Fuglie and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back cover blurb Rising agricultural productivity has driven improvements in living standards for millennia. Today, redoubling that effort in developing countries is critical to reducing extreme poverty, ensuring food security for an increasing global population, and adapting to changes in climate. This volume presents fresh analysis on global trends and sources of productivity growth in agriculture and offers new perspectives on the drivers of that growth. It argues that gains from the reallocation of land and labor are not as promising as believed, so policy needs to focus more on the generation and dissemination of new technologies, which requires stepping up national research efforts. Yet, in many of the poorest nations, a serious research spending gap has emerged precisely at the time when the challenges faced by agriculture are intensifying. The book focuses on how this problem can be redressed in the public sector, as well as on reforms aimed at mobilizing new private sector actors and value chains, particularly creating a better enabling environment, reforming trade regulations, introducing new products, and strengthening intellectual property rights. On the demand side, the book examines what recent research reveals about policies to reduce the barriers impeding smallholder farmers from adopting new technologies. Harvesting Prosperity is the fourth volume of the World Bank Productivity Project, which seeks to bring frontier thinking on the measurement and determinants of productivity to global policy makers. “As rightly argued by the authors, growth in agricultural productivity is the essential instrument to promote development in low-income agriculture-based countries. Achieving this requires research and development, upgrading of universities, reinforcement of farmer capacities, removal of constraints to adoption, and the development of inclusive value chains with interlinked contracts. As important, such efforts also need to be placed within a context of comprehensive agricultural, rural, and structural transformations. However, in many countries implementation of the requisite policies has been lagging. This book, with contributions from many top experts in the field, provides the most up-to-date presentation of this argument and explains in detail how to successfully put its ideas into practice. Governments, the private sector, and civil society organizations need to study it carefully to turn the promise of agriculture for development into a reality.“ Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet Professors of the Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley

Author : Rubens Francois Titus
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475934289
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roadmap to Haiti’s Next Revolution written by Rubens Francois Titus and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiti, the first slavery-emancipated black nation on earth, achieved a political revolution for the dignity of man at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Her history is well documented. Scholars have published in-depth analyses on her past and present. Yet she remains an enigma. In Roadmap to Haiti’s Next Revolution: Capitalizing Haiti’s Economy with Haitian Diaspora Remittances, author Rubens Francois Titus attempts to understand the real underpinnings of the Haitian revolution while proposing labels for a number of the most well-known events in Haiti’s history. He also tries to refute some of the most widely accepted contemporary misconceptions about the Haiti of today. There are a number of hard lessons to be learned from studying Haiti’s history. Titus puts forth a series of empirical proposals that can serve as the basis for future political-forum debates among the concerned Diaspora Haitians—debates that ought to lead to the adoption of a Diaspora Plan for Haiti.

Author : Marko Ehrlich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haiti, Country Environmental Profile written by Marko Ehrlich and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mats Lundahl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317593731
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Haitian Economy (Routledge Revivals) written by Mats Lundahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiti is a very poor country with a stagnant economy. This title, first published in 1983, considers the Haitian economy, placing it in its historical context, and explores the reasons why it has performed so badly. Mats Lundahl examines agriculture, which has failed to provide an adequate standard of living, analyses the structure of agricultural production, and explains why the land is so unproductive. Lundahl analyses why technology in agriculture is so underdeveloped and argues that no government since 1820 has been seriously interested in fostering economic development, since vested interest consistently intervenes to discourage new projects.

Author :
Publisher : Catholic Relief Services
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assessment of Haitian Mango Value Chain: A Participatory Assessment of Mango Chain Actors in Southern Haiti written by and published by Catholic Relief Services. This book was released on with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Juan Gonzalez
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0140255397
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvest of Empire written by Juan Gonzalez and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning 500 years of Hispanic history, from the first New World colonies to the 19th century westward expansion in America, this narrative features family portraits of real-life immigrants along with sketches of the political events and social conditions that compelled them to leave their homeland.